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Fish freezing solid in shallows
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:49:21 -0800, ~ jan JJsPond.us
wrote: Unfortunately, one of my weaker fish, who I was treating for fin rot prior to the down turn in temps this fall, succumbed and I found floating this morning. This is a wee bit off topic but your statement there made a memory of 1970 Winter spring up. I had several aquariums in our home and had caught some local perch and put into a child's swimming pool on a screened porch with water lillies. They didn't seem to be doing too well so I carried them back to the lake where I had netted them but left the pool on the porch with the plants in it. They did so well. Time marches on ... we had some very large opaline gouramis that came down with ich. I was going to take that tank down and sterilize it and put the gouramis in the pool on the porch and treated the water with salt. The ich was doing well ... growing by leaps and bounds and the specks were getting larger by the day. We had a family crisis come up and the fish on the porch were forgotten. It seemed like over night the cold of winter came about. I really didn't know what to do about the gouramis as I didn't have a place for them in the house. And they had looked so bad I just left them. [PLEASE... NO SCREAMING YET ... the story's not over! ] I would peek at them from time to time and could see them not floating belly up but not moving very much. That spring I said I was going to net them, put them in a large plastic bag and bring them inside where I now had a spare tank. When I floated them there were no ich spots but they had what appeared to be cataracts! I let them float in the bag for a very long time until the water temp was equal to the water in the tank. They looked just fine except for the eyes and in no time were eating like normal fish. One morning my 5 year old daughter came running into our bed room screaming for us to get out of bed and come look. Staggering into the den we found the fish had no cataracts, no ich and their color was much better than other gouramis that had stayed in the house all winter. Thought you would [Y A W N ! ] enjoy that little tale. |
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